Posts from August 2017

By Robert Farris, Chair & President, CoNimby Foundation Horizontal leadership is essentially working relationships across organizational boundaries; forcing cooperative worker-owners to treat each other with mutual respect and reciprocity. Top down command and control leadership has no footing in the cooperative. Here a leader isn’t a permanent title; it’s an…

MOTIONS Motion 1: To hire an Executive Director for the Women’s Foundation of Ohio. The Women’s Foundation of Ohio is our grant-making foundation that supports charities throughout the state that focus on women issues. Hiring an Executive Director would guide the program and fulfill its charitable purpose while lessening the…

By Ashley Moore An Impact Fund®, a registered trademark of The Ohio Cooperative, is an impact investment vehicle dedicated to utilizing philanthropic capital to foster community development, job creation, and job growth. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention of generating social and environmental…

By Christiana Jones WHAT IS MOBILE ENTERPRISE? Even though we hear so much about the “Mobile Enterprise” most of us don’t really know what it all really means or why it matters a lot in the business world. In every business platform, “Mobile Enterprise” plays a very big role, it…

The Ohio Cooperative Workers’ Council is the volunteer Board of Directors of The Ohio Cooperative. The Workers’ Council is made up of worker-owners from around the state, one (1) council member per county. Council members oversee the overall strategy of the cooperative and are elected for a four (4) year…